Robert Delaunay. L'invention du pop. Europe With over 600 illustrations and

With over 600 illustrations and patterns

to link each one to the previous one by a text describing the historical conditions of its creation

Eugène: A marriage contract from the year 4 of Psammetichus II

They were his voice (heralds or praecones)

“Fragments” collection from Belles Lettres

Robert Delaunay. L'invention du pop. Europe With over 600 illustrations andCan avant garde painting assume total formal autonomy at the risk of ignoring mass culture? This poses one of the dilemmas of 20th century modernism. For Robert Delaunay (1885 1941), a major figure in the avant garde, the answer is unequivocal: sensing the need not to confine modern painting to an anti illusionist quest, he strives to articulate realism (mimesis) and abstraction (aisthesis). A precursor of pop in The Cardiff Team in 1913, he is also